 | James Kennedy - Poets, English - 1830 - 461 pages
...o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But nothing he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock told the hour for retiring ; And we heard, by the distant and random gun, That the foe was suddenly... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - American literature - 1830 - 321 pages
...o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But nothing he '11 reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him.' But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock tolled the hour for retiring, And we heard the distant and random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1830 - 404 pages
...him ; But nothing he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him." 7 But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock toll'd the hour lor retiring, And we heard/the distant and random gun, That the fee was suddenly firing — 8 -Slowly... | |
 | Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1831
...his cold ashes upbraid him, — But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing.... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - Elocution - 1831 - 356 pages
...o'er his cold ashes upbraid him; But nothing he 'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock tolled the hour for retiring, And we heard, by the distant random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - Elocution - 1831 - 338 pages
...o'er his cold ashes upbraid him; But nothing he 'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, And we heard, by the distant random gun, ThaMhe foe was suddenly firing— When the clock tolled the... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1832 - 284 pages
...his cold ashes upbraid him- ; But nothing he'll reck, if they let him sleep on, In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task, was done, When the clock tolled the hour for retiring f And we heard, by the distant random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing.... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832
...the grave where a Briton has laid him. A But half of our heavy task was clone, When the clock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and... | |
 | James Campbell (teacher of English.) - 1832
...his cold ashes upbraid him,— But nothing he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, And we heard by the distant and random gun That the foe was suddenly firing. When the clock toll'd... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1833 - 312 pages
...him; But nothing he '11 reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him." 7 But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock...retiring, And we heard the distant and random gun, the foe was suddenly firing— 8 (jj ) Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame... | |
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Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him; — But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on, In the grave where a Briton has laid him. 
